Start
this week at district meeting once again. We had interviews with
President and Sister Rahlf. Elder Labrador and I got up early and got to
Alicia by 7:30 to open up the Bishop offices for the interviews. We saw
the one bishop leave on his bike right when we got there so we figured
everything was unlocked and ready for interviews. Well, we went in and
he had only unlocked the one office. So of course we started calling
everybody we could but nobody was answering. I know President doesn't
really like it when the rooms aren't open on time so I really wanted to
get everything ready on time. The building we meet at isn't our church
building so we didn't really know who to call. Anyway the other bishop
showed up right after President got there so it turned out alright. We
got interviewed first and it went well. Talked with Sister Rahlf about
the area book and then she had some quotes on her iPad so she had us
pick the one we like the best. Then President Rahlf shared a thought
with us from the scriptures about Nephi. From 2 Nephi 4, Nephi talks
about how he still feels like he has faults and he still needs to
improve his life even after everything he has already done. We related
it to us especially at this time of the year that there is always
something we can change and improve on. Then we led into talking about
goals for the year 2016. Too bad I didn't know I needed an endorsement
last week since I could've talked to him about it in the interview but
we did talk a little about school. He encouraged the fall track and just
to go straight into school. After the interviews we had the normal
district meeting. President and Sister Rahlf still weren't done with
interviews after district meeting so those that hadn't been interviewed
stayed there but we left and went to lunch.
Wednesday
we had MLC. Got there pretty early so we could be the first to jump on
the computer and update the baptism list for Alicia zone. We didn't
update it last time so we had quite a few to update. For MLC we finished
making a new standard of excellence for 2016 that we will introduce at
zone conference in February. Also made a new vision statement for the
mission. Then we had lunch. We ate KFC. They ordered each of us like a
little party box with a variety in it. But it was super good. Then we
went back to the meeting and Sister Rahlf shared with us about
footprints. What kind of footprint we leave behind. And President taught
us about magnifying our calling. Overall it was a good meeting and we
finished everything we needed to get done. Zone meeting is tomorrow so
we get to modify the message a little bit and share it with the zone.
Ate lunch with Teikauea again and hung out with him for a while. He's
down in Solano so the only time's I ever see him are at MLC.
Here's
an update with the work from the last week. Brother Neo was out of town
like all week. We knew he was going to Manila last week and coming home
on Tuesday. We decided to visit him on Wednesday thinking he would be
there but his wife said he took off again and went to Pangasinan. So we
didn't get to teach him all week.
The
Quisisem family is still doing great. We don't teach them a lot anymore
but we do quick drop by visits every once in a while. They were all at
church this last Sunday except for Nanay. We have a dinner appointment
with them tomorrow so we will be able to continue to help them on their
way back to church.
John Garcia is doing
well as well. He wasn't there last week but he did come yesterday. He
was in Cauayan last week so he wasn't able to come. He still only comes
to the first meeting though then leaves so we want to help him attend
all the meetings in the next few weeks.
We
followed up some new investigators from last week and one of them stood
out a little. His name is Jesus Resurrection. Quite the name huh?
Anyway, we left the lesson 2 pamphlet with him and he read the whole
thing. He's pretty old and he wife has already passed away so we thought
he would like that. When we asked him how he like the message, he said
he really liked knowing where we came from. So we had a lesson and
talked about that and all was going well. He said he wasn't doing
anything on Sunday so we invited him to come to church since he had
time. That's when he just said straight up no. He was born a Catholic
and will die a Catholic. We actually heard that from 2 different people
as well this week. So anyway, there is still work to do.
We
continued to get some more new investigators this week by just finding
and teaching on the spot. I actually really enjoy doing that now unlike
before.
We had the area broadcast
yesterday that talked about the Philippines goals for 2016. It was
pretty good. It's kinda funny though because most the Filipinos can
understand English if it is pronounced well but Elder Ardern is from New
Zealand and has a super hard accent so like nobody knows what he is
saying but there is still a ton of people there. But it was still a good
broadcast and got to see some of the other missionaries from the zone.
Finally made it home and did the usual Sunday night KI's. Last night
actually all came in before 10 for the first time since I've been here
so that was super nice. Anyway, that's pretty much the week this week.
Love you all and have a great week!
Because of the new time of church, we all see each other every Sunday.
Best tricy setup I've seen!
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